This book contains papers presented at a conference focused on the subject of funding for higher education and providing comparative perspectives on, and case studies of, educational financing from around the world. After an introduction by Ernest L. Boyer, the papers and their authors are as follows: "The Costs of Higher Education: Worldwide Issues and Trends for the 1990s" (D. Bruce Johnstone); "Optimizing Allocation Strategy" (William F. Massy and Michael C. Hulfactor); "University Strategies for the Third Stream of Income" (John Furstenbach); "The Future of Higher Education Financing" (George Psacharopoulos); "Sources of Revenue" (Ihsan Dogramaci); "Are University Funding Systems in Need of an Overhaul?" (Karel Tavernier); "Industry-University Research Collaboration: An Option for Generating Revenue" (Linda Parker); "Higher Education Funding in Open Door China" (Richard A. Hartnett); "Toward Understanding the Economics of African Higher Education" (Teshome G. Wagaw); "Allocating Budgets Using Performance Criteria" (Michael A. Brown and David M. Wolf); "Changing Patterns in the Funding of University Education and Research: The Case of the Netherlands" (Cornelius A. Hazeu and Peter A. Lourens); "Issues in Funding Higher Education in Eastern Europe: The Cases of the Czech Republic and Slovakia" (James E. Mauch and Daniel S. Fogel); "Problems of Funding the Transformation of Higher Education in East Germany" (Helmut de Rudder); "Higher Education Funding in Australia" (Brian G. Wilson); "Canadian Universities and the Politics of Funding" (Howard Buchbinder and P. Rajagopal); and "Constructing the 'Post-Industrial University': Institutional Budgeting and University-Corporate Linkages" (Janice A. Newson). Contains an index. (GLR)